Python Job Trends in Cheshire

Python
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Python skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 37 21
Rank change year-on-year +24 -16 +20
Permanent jobs citing Python 112 42 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.89% 3.73% 8.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.72% 13.82% 22.58%
Number of salaries quoted 14 17 41
10th Percentile £38,625 - £25,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -23.08% +33.33%
75th Percentile £58,438 £80,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £61,488 - £100,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 282 304 186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 37.50% 27.00% 36.54%
Number of salaries quoted 98 199 145
10th Percentile £34,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £37,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £62,406 £59,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £83,934
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -3.51% +3.64%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Cheshire

Python
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Cheshire over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in Cheshire

Python
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warrington +26 20 £42,500 -10.53% 28
Knutsford - 11 £51,625 - 9
Chester -4 6 £55,000 -31.25% 11
Crewe -10 3 £53,750 +7.50%
Lymm - 3 - -
Wilmslow - 2 - - 1
Alderley Edge - 1 - -
Neston - 1 - -
Runcorn - 1 - - 2
Frodsham - 1 - -
Widnes - 1 - - 1
Python
North West

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (7.14%) SAS
2 2 (1.79%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) CANalyzer
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 24 (21.43%) AWS
1 24 (21.43%) Azure
2 20 (17.86%) GCP
3 4 (3.57%) Power Platform
4 1 (0.89%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (0.89%) Azure App Service
4 1 (0.89%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (0.89%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 66 (58.93%) VPN
2 39 (34.82%) Cisco IOS
3 30 (26.79%) DNS
4 2 (1.79%) DHCP
4 2 (1.79%) HTTP
4 2 (1.79%) SSL
5 1 (0.89%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.89%) Firewall
5 1 (0.89%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.36%) Oracle Database
2 5 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.57%) Power BI
3 4 (3.57%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.79%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.79%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.89%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.89%) Power Query
5 1 (0.89%) Redis
5 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.89%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Git
2 3 (2.68%) ER Studio
2 3 (2.68%) GitLab
2 3 (2.68%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.79%) JIRA
4 1 (0.89%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (0.89%) CANoe
4 1 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.89%) TeamCity
General
1 87 (77.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 73 (65.18%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (35.71%) Finance
4 9 (8.04%) Banking
5 8 (7.14%) Social Skills
6 5 (4.46%) Legal
7 3 (2.68%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.79%) Games
9 1 (0.89%) Automotive
9 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (36.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 31 (27.68%) Developer
3 27 (24.11%) Software Developer
4 22 (19.64%) Senior
5 20 (17.86%) Senior Software Engineer
5 20 (17.86%) Software Engineer
6 5 (4.46%) Data Manager
6 5 (4.46%) Data Warehouse Manager
7 3 (2.68%) Data Modeller
7 3 (2.68%) Finance Modeller
8 2 (1.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 2 (1.79%) Data Engineer
8 2 (1.79%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.79%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (1.79%) Games Developer
8 2 (1.79%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
8 2 (1.79%) Senior Developer
8 2 (1.79%) Senior Games Developer
9 1 (0.89%) Python Developer
9 1 (0.89%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (35.71%) Elastic Stack
2 24 (21.43%) .NET
3 20 (17.86%) Node.js
4 2 (1.79%) DPDK
4 2 (1.79%) eBPF
4 2 (1.79%) Keras
4 2 (1.79%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.79%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.89%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.89%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.89%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (0.89%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.89%) Hugging Face
5 1 (0.89%) JWT
5 1 (0.89%) LangChain
5 1 (0.89%) NLTK
5 1 (0.89%) React
5 1 (0.89%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.89%) SpaCy
5 1 (0.89%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 86 (76.79%) Cyberattack
2 20 (17.86%) Linux Command Line
2 20 (17.86%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (4.46%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.79%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.89%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.89%) Blog
6 1 (0.89%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.89%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.89%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 92 (82.14%) Linux
2 66 (58.93%) Android
3 44 (39.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (62.50%) Mathematics
2 66 (58.93%) Line Management
3 49 (43.75%) Agile
3 49 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (40.18%) DevOps
5 41 (36.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 40 (35.71%) Platform Engineering
6 40 (35.71%) Risk Management
6 40 (35.71%) Task Automation
7 39 (34.82%) Storage Management
8 27 (24.11%) Android Development
8 27 (24.11%) Design Patterns
8 27 (24.11%) OO
8 27 (24.11%) OOP
9 26 (23.21%) Machine Learning
10 23 (20.54%) Software Engineering
11 22 (19.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 21 (18.75%) Data Engineering
12 21 (18.75%) Mentoring
12 21 (18.75%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 51 (45.54%) C++
1 51 (45.54%) Java
2 48 (42.86%) Go
3 43 (38.39%) Bash
4 40 (35.71%) PowerShell
5 23 (20.54%) JavaScript
6 21 (18.75%) Rust
7 13 (11.61%) SQL
8 5 (4.46%) R
9 3 (2.68%) C#
10 2 (1.79%) C
10 2 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.79%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.79%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.89%) Bicep
11 1 (0.89%) Dart
11 1 (0.89%) Julia
11 1 (0.89%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.89%) PHP
11 1 (0.89%) VBA
Qualifications
1 47 (41.96%) DV Cleared
1 47 (41.96%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.86%) AWS Certification
2 20 (17.86%) AWS Certified Developer
2 20 (17.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 8 (7.14%) Degree
4 5 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.89%) HNC
5 1 (0.89%) HND
5 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.89%) AUTOSAR
1 1 (0.89%) Data Quality
1 1 (0.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 71 (63.39%) Docker
2 39 (34.82%) Hyper-V
2 39 (34.82%) VMware NSX
2 39 (34.82%) vSphere
3 2 (1.79%) KVM
3 2 (1.79%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 70 (62.50%) Ansible
2 42 (37.50%) Terraform
3 7 (6.25%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.57%) Grafana
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.89%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.89%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.89%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (34.82%) 3PAR
1 39 (34.82%) Cisco
1 39 (34.82%) Juniper
1 39 (34.82%) Splunk
2 7 (6.25%) Oracle
3 3 (2.68%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.79%) SaltStack
5 1 (0.89%) Databricks
5 1 (0.89%) SAP
5 1 (0.89%) TOWER Software